UNPOPULAR OPINIONS! 🥴

[roosterhavoc]

My unpopular opinions:

1. Chickens that can't survive free range around predators should be culled unless they have a purpose as a pet in a cage, like domesticated parrots or finches.

2. Along the lines of #1, the U.S. backyard chicken keeping culture and the concept of the Fort Knox coop has greatly damaged the free-range survivability of many breeds.

3. Game breeds should be present on every farm that has the room to let them free range.

4. (Unpopular with gamefowl keepers), the tie and cord system is about as damaging to gamefowl as the coop system is for traditional duel purpose breeds. Gamefowl should generally be raised as they were 150 years ago, free range in the woods. Only a few individuals should be pulled off the flock and kept separate with limited mobility.

5. Eggs in an incubator should only be turned twice a day.

6. The poultry show standards of perfection sometimes do more harm than good by selecting for arbitrary traits that don't practically improve the breed.

7. Chicken lives really don't matter in the grand scheme of things and there's few animals on earth more disposable than a chicken.

Anyone I haven't offended?

You haven’t offended me in the least but you have made me laugh a few times.
If you actually had gamefowl you wouldn’t be allowing full grown roosters to run loose past the maturity phase.

 

[duluthralphie]

Now there's an unpopular opinion.
I doubt roosters really do that much to protect your hens.

His hens are begging for predators to end their lives to stop the constant obviating.

 

[roosterhavoc]

It was a boring topic. It has to be interesting And I need to hear different stuff to argue with.

Give me a minute.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Hmm, let me see. Bull frog thing (forgot your username, sorry)... Do you own real Gamefowl or just OEGBs or something?

 

[roosterhavoc]

I have over 100 free range gamefowl at the moment and another 100 or so in pens. The loose birds are mostly hens and pullets but a bunch of loose stags under 6 months too ( they’ll be put up soon) and even half of them will start fighting long before the 6 month mark.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Hmm, let me see. Bull frog thing (forgot your username, sorry)... Do you own real Gamefowl or just OEGBs or something?

He does not based on his numbered items that make zero sense.

 

[roosterhavoc]

If I didn’t trap the raccoons, mink, possums and fox around here I would lose birds. Yes gamefowl are better survivors than most chickens but that’s just because they’re more wary, faster, stronger etc... they still can’t fight anything off except the occasional hawk except in rare circumstances.

 

[HuffleClaw]

He does not based on his numbered items that make zero sense.

True.

 

[HuffleClaw]

My guineas have chased off a few hawks (somehow), but I have lost plenty of broody guineas to foxes.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Where did he go? Come on.